tremendous popularity and shortage of slotstheobamaadministrationcapped enrollment in thed.c.programunderpressure from teachers union. earlier in 2008 campaign speech to the american federation of teachers then candidate obama criticized the opponent for supporterring vouchers. >> the only proposal is recycling tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice. >> besieged by the republicans and many democrats and supported the d.c. program, they relented. >> best bet are reforming the public school system. many on the left who oppose voucher support school choice but under the us a spaces of public -- us a spaces of public education. >> raer than divert money away to individual private schools. of varying quality -- varying quality of no regulation or accountability for student outcome. >> unions are pressing the fight against the vouchers. last december they ruled jindal's voucher program in louisiana amounted to unconstitutional payment of public funds. other state teacher unions are following loads' lead suggesting a bumpy road ahead for school choice movement. >> bret: thank you

thatpresidentobama's policyon the irannuclearprogram. >>i just been handed a note that i, i misspoke and said i supported the president's position on containment. if i said that, meant to say that i obviously, his position on containment we don't have a position on containment. >> we do have a position on containment that we do not favor containment. >> hagel appeared unfamiliar with the massive cut on the department of defense part of the august 2011 budget control act. >> you were after the sequestration bill has passed. >> not sequestration. budget control act. they were talking here about what would happen if you took the cuts. that is what i was talking about. >> at the white house for now they are standing by the nominee. >> president believes that senator hagel will make an excellent secretary of defense and he will be confirmed. he looks forward to working with senator hagel in that positions we continue to advance our national security priorities. >> new york senator chuck schumer who initially had, "genuine concerns about hagel's record on iran and israel and tends to vote

health care thanks topresidentobamaandnancycy pelosi. we have a long-standinghealthyprogramandthe new international law will extend the program to 3 b thousand san franciscans. and just as we must keep getting health care and pension reform define we must address the challenge of the unfunded liability area. we're beginning to make progress but we must development a more responsible approach to providing health care to our retired city employees >> and know that together our partners in labor will address this the san francisco way to son sense once in a while. and finally, we must rebuilt our st. louis hospital in the mission. they're the priors of critical health deliver as well as major employers. members of the board have taken a strong leadership role working with my office to bring a proposal back to the community that delivers jobs and most importantly critical health care for our city were we're going to get it done. and that brings me arrest warrant why we're here today. a college track and education. i hear from businesses that they're number one priority is edu

programs, firstthingpresidentobamadidin offers was amodificationprogramthatdid not work for this reason, they put so many restricts on it, that people who met them did not have to give up their homes, look the government policies is what got us in this, the government needs to back out and let the market settle. tom: i thought they were, i had hope, i want to go over this again, to qualify, you have to dim straight a hardship, and -- demonstrate a hardship, and not be behind on your payments, if yoifyou have a hardship, you are probably behind on payments and a debt of 55 percent of your income, that is steep. that is another show about whether we should step in and let the market take effect. this is and the fees to pay 20% of assets? they don't have the money. >> tom this is r, this is a typical government program, if you are current on your mortgage payment, up to march,ive month, most likely have you a job, and hopefully you do, but you have to move somewhere else in the city, they take 20% of your assets, you now have nov into an apartment, another home, if you move

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threat. >> reporter: but that sense of mission drove a very public spat withpresidentobamalastfall over when iran's program had to be stopped before it became impervious to attack. netanyahu famously set the red- line for israel at the u.n. >> the red line should be drawn right here. >> reporter: mr. obama has pledged to prevent a nuclear- armed iran, but hasn't laid out a red linef his own. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> the cooperation between our defense establishments is extraordinary. >> reporter: the u.s. and israel are working together with international sanctions against iran, close intelligence cooperation and what's thought to be a covert campaign of sabotage. but tehran continues enriching uranium, which it insists is for peaceful power generation only. and monday tehran said it had launched a monkey into space, showing off the kind of missile prowess that could be harnessed to deliver a nuclear warhead. >> the iranians are playing a cat and mouse game. >>

republicans about immigration,socialprograms, andimpeachingpresidentobama, youwould think they haven't learned anything from 2012 in some cases. for example, take a look at what virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli writes in his upcoming book. it strikes a similar note to mitt romney's old problem about that 47%. remember? here is a new version. quote, one of their favorite ways to increase their power, he's talking about the democrats here, is by creating programs that dispense subsidized government benefits such as medicare, social security, and outright welfare. these programs make people dependent on government, and once people are dependent they feel they can't afford to have the programs taken away no matter how inefficient, poorly run, or costly to the rest of society. does the republican party have a chance with folks like cuccinelli around? bob shrum is a democratic strategist, and michael steele is a former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst. bob, i want you to talk about this because it's fairly familiar talk. whether it has any logic to it or not, there is somet

programs, thoseagencies and those jobs. >> and, remember -- >> and blaming itonobama. >>and we're over-represented there because it is the one place where the laws of antidiscrimination have been most clearly taken care of. it has been hard to get the pry vat sector to focus affirmatively on furthering the possibility of diverse work force. but government had been able to do its at the sate level. so cutting jobs, cutting a disproportionate share of the minority jobs and then blaming president obama for doing it and then saying oh, this is all worse under president obama while having no reflection on the federal system. >> what's worlst is the ability to read what's going on. if you don't fight the public sector, you can't handle those of us that have a disproportionate amount in there. when you deal with the politics that we're looking at coming, the sequester, listen to what paul ryan said on "meet the press". >> i think the sequester is going to happen because that $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, we can't lose those spending cults. we think these sequesters will happen because the d

actually started to enact some of the measures thatpresidentobamawouldlike to see enacted nationwide, including a violence prevention program for youth, but more broadly they have expanded and improved their background checks, including information that they collect at the state level of people who are suffering from mental problems, people who have criminal records. so president obama will go there on monday to talk about some of his own proposals to stem gun violence, which, of course, include reinstating the ban on assault weapons, limiting high capacity magazines and universal background checks which then n recently said that is something they oppose. president obama and vice president biden we expect them to hit the road to talk about this issue of gun safety. it's a part of their broader plan to get congress to sign on with some of the legislative changes they would like to see happen. >> well, clearly as you point out, it does not seem there's a coincidence to going to a place where we're talking about background checks given the attention that background checks and that issu

in egypt. >>> energy secretary steven chu is resigning. in a statement,presidentobamasaidchu helped move the country toward energy independence citing department programs in wind and solar power. chu will stay on until the end of the month and until a successor is confirmed. those are the headlines. back to tracy and ashley. ashley: rick folbaum, thanks so much. the u.s. economy added 157,000 jobs in january, while the unemployment rate it ticked up to 7.9% but today's report represents only a fraction of the 12 million americans looking for work. peter barnes joins us from the labor department with more on that story, peter? >> hey, ashley. 4.7 million of those 12 million people have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer. that's about 40% of the stolt -- total unemployment. the white house is not doing any high-fives about the jobs report today but it will take it. the president's top economist alan krueger telling me this morning that the report and some other economic indicators paint a picture of an economy that is slowly healing but not back to full they will health just yet.

. >> shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected. >> we have had four years oftheobamaeconomy.it hasn't worked. >> it's been tanking for four years. >> the worst the jobs council did was very helpful. >> the jobs council that didn't embrace the president's jobs program is when you have to say, what are they up to. >> jobs council -- >> a number of ideas was acted on by this administration. as part of the president's overall commitment to job creation and economic growth. >> shovel ready was not as ready as shovel ready as we expected. >> as it turns out he had a whole bunch of business people that were trying to be good enough to get a food goodies from the president. >> you are more concerned with meetings than progress. >> there haven't been the recovery. now, we have the fourth quarter where the economy shrank. it contracted. >> greta: now what? ron johnson joins us, republican senator. i may be one of the few that it's not a big deal because i thought it was a silly photo op, to put these people in and we pretend something happened. >> it was window dressing. >> greta: i

idea of whatfederalprogramsareabout are not about makers and takers. they're about giving everybody a chance. >> they sure are. >> that was the speech that president obama gave in the inauguration. and cuccinnelli and all the others can try to play this game. it's a loser. paul ryan, by the way, who i saw the other night at a dinner, i said what are you up to, what are you looking at? what do you want to do this time around? and he talked about -- he said he wanted to look at poverty and see what he could do about poverty. i actually think that -- this may sound silly to you, but paul ryan's a smart enough politician to know that he made a big mistake talking about takers and makers in 2012. >> no question about it. >> and he's not going to repeat it. cuccinnelli can repeat it. paul ryan's not going to. >> gentlemen, let's talk about chuck hagel. i was surprised at how republicans threw another republican under the bus today, especially the exchange between mccain and chuck hagel. howard, what did you think of that? >> well, i think there's a lot of republican resentment about hagel

anything to reform a tax code. we haven't done anything to reform ourentitlementprograms. toslow overrate of growth of the economy. we have to do that or we will never get to the promise land. i think president obama is right. that we still got to have some revenue in the mix. but again, the real focus has to be on reducing these entitlement costs. that's the big deal. >> senator, you agree that we need entitlement cuts but we also need revenue as part of the last phase of this deficit reduction? >> i do, indeed. you don't have to call it a tax increase. if you go into the tax expenditures, which are these loop holes, they are really spending any other name, earmarked, $1,100,000,000 of them. you can't spend your way out of this hole and can't tax your way out of this hole or grow your way out of hole. no economy said we could grow our way out in year. >> we are hearing more and more from republicans and even some democrats that, as they say this march 1 sequester deadline that maybe we let the sequester take effect. 10 million over ten years, evenly split between domestic and de

margaret warner in israel. she's been exploring key issues facing bothpresidentobamaandprime minister netanyahu after elections in both countries. earlier this week, margaret looked at the spillover of the war in syria and the threat posed by iran's nuclear program. for tonight's report, she traveled to the west bank and gaza to examine the growing disillusionment among both israelis and palestinians about the prospects for peace. >> when i start a small business then start to be big. >> warner: he launched his furniture business in the west bank town 20 years ago. s a young man just before the 1993 oslo accords promised a newera in israeli-palestinian relations. >> he thought his world was changing. >> and all of my customer is israeli people israeli companies. i reach-- . >> warner: times were good with 150 employee os making and selling furniture. then came the second palestinian intifadah or uprising, that brought suicide bombings and terror to israel. >> after the intifadah all things gone closed everything. >> warner: thousands of shoppers from israel used to drive up this road

facing bothpresidentobamaandprime minister netanyahu after elections in both countries. earlier this week, margaret looked at the spillover of the war in syria and the threat posed by iran's nuclear program. for tonight's report, she traveled to the west bank and gaza to examine the growing disillusionment among both israelis and palestinians about the prospects for peace. >> when i start a small business, then start to be big. >> warner: he launched his furniture business in the west bank town 20 years ago. s a young man just before the 1993 oslo accords promised a newera in israeli-palestinian relations. >> he thought his world was changing. >> and all of my customer is israeli people, israeli companies. i reach-- . >> warner: times were good with 150 employee os making and selling furniture. then came the second palestinian intifadah or uprising, that brought suicide bombings and terror to israel. >> after the intifadah all things gone, closed, everything. >> warner: thousands of shoppers from israel used to drive up this road to take advantage of bargains in the palestinian

at 2:30inprogram216of the hart building. and friday, retired general mcchrystal will talk about his memoir on the afghanistan war and his removal by president obama. that is your capital rundown for the week of february 4th, 2013. you can find more at myfoxdc.com and reach us on twitter at #capital rundown. >>> before we get to tucker, we want to mention as you take a live look at the roads with the snow coming down, we are now getting lots of reports of fender-benders, particularly in montgomery county. allow extra time. it's fresh snow. not a lot, but has fallen and there are problems out there. >> most importantly, temperatures have fallen back into the 20s. anything that's partly melted can refreeze quick and can cause more issues. >> yuck. >> yeah. >> snow coming down has cooled the atmosphere. >> yeah, cooled it big time. the good news, if you need to be out on the roadways. most of the snow is out of here. reduced, very light snow bands and a couple of flurries left over. we did get a quick burst of snow. between a coating to half inch. that's the most i've seen so far. if yo

on howpresidentobamamayapproach foreign policy and national security in his second term. over the next hour and 20 minutes, panelists examine issues including sequestration, syria's several war and the nuclear programs in iran and north korea. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, folks. can i get everybody to sit down and chew quietly? thank you. i think we're going to start here. good afternoon, everybody. i'm danielle pletka, i'm the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. welcome to the first of our annual series in state of the union policy events. every year aei scholars come together, and we look forward to the challenges of the year ahead and policy questions that have been raised and are likely to come up and try and look forward a little bit, think a little bit about what the right answers are to the questions that are being posed. it's one to have but events we -- one of the few events we do with only aei scholars, although i'm very happy to be together with them. i'll lay out what the other events are at th

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